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We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather.

Barbara Ehrenreich

People who just pretend to have a positive attitude may be more acceptable, but they will still attract according to how they are really vibrating- the energy they are emanating will attract their circumstances.
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Attitude People Work
I’m not a nice person.
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Nice Person Oversmart Think
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
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Book Men Writing
Imagine spending four billion years stocking the oceans with seafood, filling the ground with fossil fuels, and drilling the bees in honey production – only to produce a race of bed-wetters!
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Business Ocean Race
Whenever people can access deities directly without the intervention of a religious hierarchy, they don’t need to have hierarchy so much.
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Need People Religious
The fact is that heterosexual sex for most people is in no way free of the power relations between men and women.
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Men People Sex
in our culture, the professional, and largely white, middle class is taken as a social norm – a bland and neutral mainstream – from which every other group or class is ultimately a kind of deviation.
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Class Taken White
Cheerfulness, up to and including delusion and false hope, has a recognized place in medicine.
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False Hope Medicine Pain
If God cares about our puny species, then disasters prove that he is not all-powerful; and if he is all-powerful, then clearly he doesn’t give a damn.
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Care Giving Powerful
There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker soon leads to wild talk of shooting dealers and making urine tests a condition for employment — anywhere.
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Drug Hug Stopping
If you can attribute your success entirely to your own mental effort, to your own attitude, to some spiritual essence that you have that is better than other peoples, then that must feel pretty good.
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Attitude Essence Spiritual
I complain to one of my fellow servers that I don’t understand how she can go so long without food. “Well, I don’t understand how you can go so long without a cigarette,” she responds in a tone of reproach. Because work is what you do for others; smoking is what you do for yourself.
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Complaining Long Smoking
Once you do lose a job, there are not a lot of social supports for you. You lose health insurance because we have this absurd system in America where health insurance is usually tied to employment. Your income dips. And that’s when you get into selling the house.
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Absurd Health House Job Jobs Once Support
Yes. I think the anti-Wal-Mart is Costco, which pays much better and has much better health benefits and which is profitable and offers low prices.
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Benefits Pay Thinking
The failure to think positively can weigh on a cancer patient like a second disease.
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Cancer Disease Thinking
Whether you work outside the home or not, never tell them [your children] that being a mommy is your ‘job.’ Being a mommy is a relationship, not a profession.
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Children Home Job Mother

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